Finn Jones Quotes

At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the circus, and I thought that was interesting. In my head, that was what I imagined I wanted to be when I grew up. Then I realized what an actor was, and I've gravitated to it ever since.

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• I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.

  

  Taylor Negron
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• It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.

  

  Sam Smith
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• I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
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• There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
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• I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.

  

  Pamela Adlon
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• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

  

  Gary Numan
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• I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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• Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

  

  Adam Garcia
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• Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

  

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• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
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• I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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• I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
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• The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

  

  Talcott Parsons
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• When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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• People ended up not thinking much of me. They saw me as a bit of a troublemaker. It's important to change people's impressions.

  

  Diego Costa
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• I had people coming up and telling me they hadn't voted in twenty-five years, but they were turning out for me on Tuesday. I still see the face of this kid who approached me in the little town of Willmar. 'Jesse,' he said, 'you are us.'

  

  Jesse Ventura
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• We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the circus, and I thought that was interesting. In my head, that was what I imagined I wanted to be when I grew up. Then I realized what an actor was, and I've gravitated to it ever since.

  

  Finn Jones
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